Photos of the Day 12/03

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A young Kashmiri boy whistles to call fellow protesters in Srinagar, India. Anti-India sentiment runs deep in the region after decades of violent turmoil. Separatist insurgencies and crackdowns by the hundreds of thousands of Indian troops deployed in the Indian-administered portion have killed more than 68,000, most of them civilians, since 1989. Altaf Qadri/AP Photo

A woman transports strawberries on her bicycle to sell by the Hoan Kiem lake in Hanoi. Kham/Reuters

Israeli security forces take up positions during clashes with Palestinian youths, in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiyeh. The clashes started after a protest against Israel's house demolitions in Issawiyeh. Bernat Armangue/AP Photo

Shobha, (l.), kisses her younger sister Lakshmi as they attend a class at Epsilon, a school funded by Azim Premji Foundation in Bangalore, India. Azim Premji, chairman of Wipro Ltd., India's third-largest software services exporter, said Wednesday he would transfer 213 million shares worth 88.4 billion rupees ($1.95 billion) in the company to the Azim Premji Foundation by Dec. 7 to fund education programs for the poor. Aijaz Rahi/AP Photo

A Morpho butterfly hangs on the wall of the butterfly house created by Dutch duo Bik Van der Pol, presented in Rome during the opening to the public of the Macro contemporary art museum in Rome. The butterfly house hosts hundred of butterflies of various kinds and origin. Alessandra Tarantino/AP Photo

Firefighters rest on the road at sunrise after participating overnight in the efforts to gain control over a massive wildfire, still raging near by, in Tirat Hacarmel, northern Israel. The worst forest fire in Israel's history devastated one of the country's few forested areas, killing dozens of people as guards raced to rescue inmates at a prison in the fire zone, destroying homes and forcing the evacuation of thousands. Tsafrir Abayov/AP Photo

Yemeni children gather, while playing in an alley of the old city of Sanaa, Yemen. Muhammed Muheisen/AP Photo

A boy plays in the water at the Punta Veleros beach in the northern city of Piura. Northern beaches in Peru, near the border of Ecuador, are being promoted by government campaigns to encourage tourism in this part of the country. Pilar Olivares/Reuters

A history enthusiast rides his horse near the village of Tvarozna near the city of Brno, Czech Republic. The re-enactment of battle of Austerlitz, celebrating its 205th anniversary, will take place on Saturday. Petr David Josek/AP Photo

New York Yankees general manager Brian Cashman, (l.), and climber Brian Van Orsdel, (r.), scale down the outside of the 22-story Landmark Building in Stamford, Connecticut. Cashman was strapped into a cable for the practice run before a holiday show on Sunday. Kathleen O'Rourke/AP Photo

A tourist jumps from a terrace at the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu in Cuzco. Peru will celebrate on July 2011, the first centenary of the discovery of Machu Picchu with a huge exhibition after an agreement with Yale University to return thousands of artifacts taken from the archaeological site in the early 1900s, the Ministry of Culture said on Thursday. Enrique Castro-Mendivil/Reuters

A woman crosses Vuelta Castillo Park through the snow in Pamplona northern Spain. A polar wind is crossing the country as many parts of Spain registered freezing temperatures and snow storms. Alvaro Barrientos/AP Photo

A sledger's boots are visible in an explosion of snow during an attempt to jump a ramp at the Queen Elizabeth country park near Petersfield in southern England. Luke MacGregor/Reuters

Activists of Sierra Club wearing flags representing countries taking part in Cancun climate talks stand next to a man dressed as a bear during a demonstration to protest against countries that they say are not doing enough to fight climate change, at a beach in Cancun. The Cancun talks have far lower ambitions than last year's Copenhagen summit which fell short of an all-encompassing deal to help slow floods, droughts, heatwaves and rising sea levels. Henry Romero/Reuters

President Barack Obama greets troops at a rally during an unannounced visit at Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan. Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Photo

On Friday, Russia's sports ministry denied accusations of state-sponsored doping that implicate more than 1,000 athletes across more than 30 sports in sample swapping, tampering with samples, and taking steroid cocktails designed to evade Olympic testing.